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United Kingdom: Suicide bomber kills 22 at Manchester concert.

A lone attacker blew himself up at a pop concert filled with teenagers and their parents killing 22 people in an apparent effort to harm as many young people as possible in the city of Manchester.

British PM Theresa May chaired an emergency Cabinet meeting and said the explosion was being treated as an “appalling terrorist attack.”

Ian Hopkins, the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, said the authorities are now trying to determine whether the attacker, whose nationality he declined to identify, was working on his own or with the assistance of a network.

Campaigning in the UK general election has been suspended as party leaders expressed their horror at the attack.

Countries from the US to Japan and Singapore are now considering tightening security ahead of major theater and sports events.